Former Australian ladies’s cricket captain Meg Lanning, who was a part of seven World Cup wins for her nation, says that after India’s first ICC World Cup triumph, the ladies’s cricket group “should be hungry for extra success”.
Lanning, who might be serving because the UP Warriorz captain within the upcoming season of Ladies’s Premier League (WPL), provides, “Nicely, there’s plenty of upside. Quite a lot of their (Indian) gamers are fairly younger as properly. So, there are various extra alternatives for them to win extra World Cups.”
Having led Australia to back-to-back World Cup wins, she believes India’s win has carried out “nice for ladies’s cricket” within the nation. “I do know that the Indian ladies might be hungry for extra success. Simply successful one isn’t sufficient. You simply wanna preserve going…” says the all-arounder.
India received their first-ever Ladies’s World Cup title after a historic 52-run victory in opposition to South Africa in November 2025.
Meg is now eager to see how issues form up for Crew India. “It’ll be actually fascinating to see how the following few years pan out, as everybody’s form of chasing them now. It’ll be a tricky battle, however I’m positive they’re attempting to win as a lot as they’ll,” she says.
Lanning feels the Indian champions must rejoice for now, as nobody is aware of when the following one goes to return. “You have to be sure to rejoice your success as a result of, clearly, that’s why you place a lot effort and time into what you do, and secondly, you nailed it. So, it’s about simply making small enhancements and frequently getting higher individually and as a group to be sure to can keep on the prime.”
As a true-blue competitor, she regrets her group dropping the semi-finals, saying, “When the consequence doesn’t go your approach, it’s clearly not ideally suited. It was an amazing contest, and India had been too good on the night time. However, clearly, I might’ve liked Australia to win.”
Bonding with Deepti and group
After captaining Delhi’s group final 12 months and now main UP Warriorz group she says, “I feel our group is extraordinarily balanced. We have lined all bases when it comes to your tempo and your spin. We have got some actually good explosive batters and bowlers who complement one another. So I feel that the group’s carried out extraordinarily properly to place it collectively. And, now we have simply gotta go on the market and play and revel in ourselves and have some enjoyable.”
On bonding with all-rounder Deepti Sharma she says, “She will definitely be somebody I converse to and lean on quite a bit. So, it is not simply me. There’s a variety of completely different individuals who’ll lead this facet and try to make us pretty much as good as we may be. And I am trying ahead to that.”
Lacking residence turf benefit!
Through the course of WPL, she is trying ahead to having some blast and is lacking Lucknow meals as no matches are being held within the homeground.
“We’d love to have the ability to get to our residence in Lucknow. Sadly, video games usually are not being held in Lucknow, so now we have to cope with what we have got. However, hopefully at some stage, we’re in a position to, to get to Lucknow and play some video games in entrance of our residence followers. I’ve heard they’re actually passionate and love video games. The extra help we get, the higher it’s for us. So, hopefully that may occur in some unspecified time in the future.”
She provides, “I really feel like there will be a couple of group dinners the place we dance just a little bit. It’s not my forte, so I will try to keep away from it, however I reckon I will get pulled in in some unspecified time in the future. I like how the Indians dance, superb rhythm. I haven’t got any rhythm although. Possibly, attempt doing steps with the WPL Cup for our group,” she says on a optimistic be aware.